Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners, 4th Edition

(Hardback, 4th Revised edition)

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This is the 4th edition of Avrom Bendavid-Val's book, designed for practitioners and students of public administration, urban and regional planning, and regional economics. Last revised in 1983, the work now provides a practitioner-oriented study of regional and local economic development planning, with emphasis on specific project activity arrived at through an analysis of the regional economic context. The book is suitable for readers without an extensive background in economics, mathematics or statistics. In addition, all analytical work is presented in a form that can be carried out without the use of computers. Bendavid-Val divides his work into five basic parts, each covering a different feature or method of analysis and planning. Part 1 introduces important aspects of the overall economic and development context within which the methods of regional analysis are used. Parts 2, 3 and 4 offer an introduction to common descriptive methods of analysis for use in regional planning, covering aggregate regional analysis, intra-regional analysis, and project identification and evaluation. The book concludes by covering various approaches to regional development planning, and attempts to provide help in selecting the methods that will be most useful in a given situation.

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AVROM BENDAVID-VAL is Research Associate at the Center for Development Policy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the author of a number of books, including three previous editions of this work.